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July 25, 2016

Afghanistan: ISIS Bombing Kills More Than 80 Protesters in Kabul
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Afghanistan observed a national day of mourning Sunday, a day after a
suicide bomber killed at least 80 people demonstrating peacefully in
Kabul. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The
demonstrators were asking the Afghan government to build a high-power
electrical transmission line in the impoverished northern province of
Bamyan. This is Jawad Rezayee, a relative of one of the bombing victims.

Jawad Rezayee: "Yesterday's incident was a tragic incident against the
movement of justice. This is the first attack against a justice
movement. We have lost many of our family and friends here. We have come
here to bury our martyred and name the hill 'the martyrs' hill.'"



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